Authors: Ira Stoll
ISBN-13: 9781616823702, ISBN-10: 1616823704
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Date Published: November 2009
Edition: Bargain
Ira Stoll was vice president and managing editor of The New York Sun, which he helped to found. He has been a consultant to the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, an editor of the Jerusalem Post, managing editor and Washington correspondent of the Forward, editor of Smartertimes.com, and a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He is a native of Massachusetts and a graduate of Harvard College. He lives in New York City.
The rousing story of Samuel Adams, the Founding Father who has been undeservedly overlooked by history but who, in Thomas Jefferson's words, was "truly the Man of the Revolution."
The crucial question addressed by Ira Stoll's new biography of revolutionary firebrand Sam Adams isn't put directly until the final pages: "If Adams was so instrumental in achieving American independence and so influential even afterward, why then has his fame faded so badly with time?" The answer has to do with a stark contradiction: Sam Adams was a conservative revolutionary, an activist whose radical approach to politics was based upon his indefatigable commitment to protecting the ancient rights of Englishmen. In helping to make America independent from England, Adams ceaselessly harked back to England's own history.
Prelude
"Pillar of Fire by Night": 1777
Introduction
"Truly the Man of the Revolution"
Chapter 1
"Born a Rebel": 1722-1764
Chapter 2
"Zealous in the Cause": 1765-1769
Chapter 3
Massacre: 1769-1773
Chapter 4
Tea Party: 1773-1774
Chapter 5
Congressman: 1774-1775
Chapter 6
Lexington and Concord: 1775
Chapter 7
Congressman, II: 1775-1779
Chapter 8
Back to Massachusetts: 1779-1793
Chapter 9
Governor: 1793-1797
Chapter 10
Passing of the Patriarch: 1797 to the Present
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index